Drug discovery
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AI and Therapeutic Abundance: Clinical trials are unlikely to get much cheaper
AI can help to design drug candidates, but as Ruxanda Teslo argues on Asimov Press, it’s not going to lead to therapeutic abundance anytime soon.…
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Biofeedback: A way to get more out of medicines?
It’s easy to control your breathing. Making yourself hyperventilate or breathe slowly and deeply is easy. Controlling your heart rate is harder. Typically, it takes…
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Lab-in-the-Loop: The self-driving research laboratories speeding up drug discovery
Artificial intelligence isn’t going to solve drug discovery, at least not the way some people imagine it is going to. Even a hyperintelligent AI, having…
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Counting is Hard: You’d think we know how many people there are, but we don’t
One of the most basic ways to understand the world is to count something. Often, that’s easier said than done. A lot of my recent…
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Shingles Vaccine and Dementia: Good news, but only because we got lucky
Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is a viral disease that causes a painful rash as well as pain and general malaise. There is a…
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Can Pharma Scale? Not like tech
Pharma and tech are different industries. For example, tech benefits from network effects (if everyone uses LinkedIn it makes more sense to join), pharma doesn’t.…
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